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With the House already on break and the Senate readying for the August recess, the health care debate has moved to the court of public opinion, the New York Times reports. Both sides are launching campaign tours and waves of TV ads, with Democrats attacking the insurance industry and Republicans calling Democratic proposals expensive and ineffective. The post-August public mood is expected to reshape the debate in Washington.

Democrats have begun speaking of “health insurance reform” rather than “health care reform,” with upcoming ads focusing on unpopular practices like refusing patients with pre-existing conditions. “Our job is to help folks understand how this will help them,” says White House adviser David Axelrod. But such tactics will likely anger the insurance industry, which says it supports reform, but not a public option. One top industry group is urging members to confront Democrats at campaign events.

Cosidering that there is so much misinformation being spread about the health insurance reform I think it will be a miracle to get most people to listen to reason. Public option doesn't mean you won't be able to keep you private care if you want it. It doesn't mean that seniors will be condemmed to die early. It doesn't mean that health care will be rationed any more than it is already by private insurance. Pre existing conditions is one of the main causes for people not having insurance. Insurance companies either won't offer you insurance or will charge such a high premium that it won't be affordable by any but the well off anyway. If both parties would stop taking the millions that the health care industry are pouring into their coffers and instead do what they were elected to do and work for their voters it would solve the problem. Right now it is the money and the party that is stopping things.

FreeThemAll

Aug 3, 2009 9:58 AM CDT

Calling me an idiot is a bad reflection on you. Your ad hominem reaction is typical of those, such as yourself, who consider only those points of view that validate what they think they already know. Continue to do so, and you will remain as open minded and clear thinking as you presently are.

FreeThemAll

Aug 3, 2009 7:49 AM CDT

The constituents who have been bamboozled by the misinformation put out by the politicians bought of by the entrenched interests resisting reform, are the ones who need to listen to those who truly have the welfare of the nation as their priority.